Land use trade-offs across Great Britain

Britain has 23 million hectares of land – how should we use it? Explore where land is suitable for food, energy, housing or nature across the country.

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based on the University of Oxford’s FLAME datasets

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Independent reconstruction of land-use analysis referenced in DEFRA's Land Use Framework: specifically the Analytical Annex to the initial consultation published in January 2025. This tool was created independently and has not been endorsed by DEFRA.

Built by Tom Gegg · tom@gegg.uk · Substack

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Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; © Natural England copyright; Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Welsh Government, Natural Resources Wales, James Hutton Institute and ONS information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Wind data from the Global Wind Atlas 4.0, Technical University of Denmark and the World Bank Group, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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